Navotas City Representative Toby Tiangco asks the House appropriations committee to release to the public the 2025 small committee report, containing the names of its members, as well as the changes they made in the budget, for transparency.
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00:00Navotas City Rep. Toby Tchanko asks the House Appropriations Committee to release to the public the 2025 small committee report containing the names of its members as well as the changes they made in the budget for transparency.
00:15During the first committee-level budget deliberation in the plenary on Monday, August 18, Tchanko called for the immediate release of the signed small committee report.
00:23New Appropriations Panel Chairperson Mika Swan Singh said Tchanko's request would be taken under consideration, but the Navotas congressman argued it shouldn't be.
00:42Swan Singh explains that she wasn't the committee chair when the small committee operated, so the request needed to be reviewed.
00:48Her predecessor, Zaldico, reportedly resigned for health reasons, though his resignation followed a backlash over the 2025 budget.
00:56The small committee handles budget amendments in closed-door meetings.
00:59This has been a long-standing practice in the House since 2010 and has been criticized for the lack of documentation and transparency.
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